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Snoop=How many soup cans on trees do you plan on running this year/gotta make it small and light to keep the young'ns moving i don't think they could handle a full 5 gal. bucket could they??. :D
D Day is just around the corner next week. That deadline for some proof.
someone had a source/How many do you figure you'll need??
as my maple tours continue, yesterday i stopped to see "the big sap zar of maple ridge". elevation, trees and location are all there for big sap. great views too. nice set up. lots of pictures. got to full tour of new tanks, vac set up and new woods being built. and sugar house. what a nice operation!!
Saturday we had a birthday party for my wife. While the gang was here I test fired the revised rig. WOW! I think I will run it with the fan speed a little lower. Serious flame in that baby. Heated up to boil and cooled down fast. I thought I had enough wood for a couple of years. I might use it all this year the way it was eating it up. I have a few smoke leaks around the arch and a couple condensate leaks from the hood to fix. Add a support arm for the steam stack and I think it's ready for the real thing.
I'll probably buy a stack thermometer just to see what it's running at. I don't want to burn the place down:) .
Now how many taps.....;)
Gary; Just back the fan down enough that she don't smoke! but keeps fanning the flames!I'll be over to help you when your ready to run the tubing on those 500 or so taps it will take to keep the old girl in sap now!LOL
Jim
Well my wife hit me with some news last night. Of course it was just as I walked in from 11 degree heat all day slinging muck and spreading gravel and dead tired.
Seems I am going to have a sap hauler in July. Now I feel like I have officially joined the ranks of the rest of you guys. I am still in shock I think.
Andy were you at my house 6-7 weeks ago?
Hey Matt,
Congratulations!!!!!!!!! Can't you have her move the date up a bit. You need help in March, not July.
Doug
Thanks doug, but this way I at least have one more sugaring season before I have to sell all my stuff and change sh*tty diapers the rest of my life.
Hey Matt,
Congrats!!!!!!
I would say the July date works well, she'll only be like 7 months along, she can still be in the sugarhouse lugging wood.
by the time a year rolls around she be just as fit to help again!!!!
Oooooops, just kidding, just kidding!!!!!!
Tell the little lady "Congrats" also!!!!
Dave
congrats to Mr. & Mrs. Royalmaple. You'll be great parents.